Improvement in burial-cases



P.B.SHEARER. BURIAL CASE.

No 111,263. Patented Jan. 24,- 1871.

5% fawn 1 itnitrh $iatra FRANK BpSHEARER, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

Letters Patent No. 111,263, dated 1 24,1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN BURIAL CASES.

The Schedule referred to; ln'these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern: v

Be it known. that LEFRANK B.SHEARER, of Gol'um'bus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio,

have invented a certain Improvement in the. Manufacture of Burial-Cases ;.and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the annexed drawing making part of this specification,in which Figure 1 is aplan view of a buri'ahcase.

Figure 2 is an elevation.

Figure 3 isa transverse section. I

The same letters are used in the several figures in the designation of identical parts.

This invention relates to the manufiictuafefof that class of burial cases which is coated with .hard rubber to prevent rapid decay and exclude .aiuand moisture; and i a My improvement consists informingon the hard rubber coat of either thebcdy or the. cover of the coffin, so as to constitute a part of such coat, astrip-of soft rubber toserveas a packiug'along the surface of contact between such bodyand cover. To enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe it more specitically.

The body A and cover B ot' the coffin are covered upon allpartslwhich are exposed when closed with a hard-rubber coat, 0, preferably under a process for which I obtained Letters Patent of-the United States on-the27th-day of September, 1870. In the groove bcf the cover, which is entered by the upper edge of the case on closing the'cofliu, a salt rubber packing-strip, 1 formed, constituting a part of the hard-rubber coat, by applying a compound of gum and sulphur, \vhioh,on 'vulcaniaing -forms soft rubber. It is apparent that this soft-rubberpackingstrip may bevulcanized upon the edge of the case ,A instead of in the groove ot'the'lid, as shown.

I am aware that it is not new to coat coflins with hard rubber; and do not therefore claim acoiiin'thus constructed. 7

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A'cofiiu, constructed as set forth, when we rubber coat Qcontains uponone of the siu tiwes of'contact betwcenthe'body and cover a'st-rip', b,'of soft rubber,

ibrming a'constituent part of the hard-rubber coat, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof -I liavejsigncd my name to this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

FRANK B. SHEAREB;

Witnesses:

D. P. HOLLOWAY, E M. Wmoa'r. 

